Author: Walter Wick
Title: A Drop of Water: A book of
Science and Wonder
Illustrator: Walter Wick
Readability: 5.4
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Informational
Theme: Water can do many things
Character: N/A
Award(s) date of publication: Robert F. Sibert; 1997
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Summary:
This book deals
with the different characteristics of water and what water can do. The book
deals with water vapor, water elastic surface, how steel floats and why the
water waves, why when in water the paintbrush is in the water it spreads out then comes back together. This book explains the
different definitions that comes along with water such as adhesion, capillary
attraction, to name a few. Soap bubbles, bubble shapes, and molecules in motion
to name a few. Throughout the book there are mind blowing pictures of water and
what it can do.
How to use in the classroom:
This book would be
a great to use along with the text book.
The students can break down different of the book to develop their own
understanding about water. Also, Walter Wick has different Science experiments
for students to do in the back of the book that would be great do with
students. For an English students could do a writing activity imagining they
were a water drop and the things they see during the day.
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